You know...I had an interesting thought...
If Microsoft comes out with a three-processor G5 system and it actually is about 3 times faster than a SP G5, Apple will probably make a tri-processor G5 system as well.
Now, consider.
A tri-processor G5, with a PPC CPU and a big graphics card, a 200 GB hard drive, internet connectivity, etc etc...
vs a tri-processor G5 PPC XBox and a big graphics card, no hard drive, no OS useable for anything but games, etc etc...
Can someone say emulator?
Imagine the ability to go buy an XBox 2 game, slap it in the G5, and play to your hearts content.
And if Microsuck makes VPC 7 work well for the G5, then Apple could have VPC 7 being fast enough to run an XBox 1 emulation program on a tri G5!
Then Apple can brag to having the only system that can emulate Windows, Linux, and both XBox models, and also run OS X, OS 9, UNIX, and Linux...
"Oh come on. Like it or not, Bill Gates is the man who made computers accessible to the common people. He certainly deserves credit for that."
You're joking, right?
20 years ago, the MACINTOSH was the first computer with a GUI, the first computer with a mouse, the first computer that you didn't need to know command line or programming to use, the first user friendly computer, and overall the ONLY good computer around.
And where was Bill Gates? Sitting in a garage plotting to BUY DOS and then copy Macintosh a few years later.
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You know...I had an interesting thought... If Microsoft comes out with a three-processor G5 system and it actually is about 3 times faster than a SP G5, Apple will probably make a tri-processor G5 system as well. Now, consider. A tri-processor G5, with a PPC CPU and a big graphics card, a 200 GB hard drive, internet connectivity, etc etc... vs a tri-processor G5 PPC XBox and a big graphics card, no hard drive, no OS useable for anything but games, etc etc... Can someone say emulator? Imagine the ability to go buy an XBox 2 game, slap it in the G5, and play to your hearts content. And if Microsuck makes VPC 7 work well for the G5, then Apple could have VPC 7 being fast enough to run an XBox 1 emulation program on a tri G5! Then Apple can brag to having the only system that can emulate Windows, Linux, and both XBox models, and also run OS X, OS 9, UNIX, and Linux...
"Oh come on. Like it or not, Bill Gates is the man who made computers accessible to the common people. He certainly deserves credit for that."
You're joking, right?
20 years ago, the MACINTOSH was the first computer with a GUI, the first computer with a mouse, the first computer that you didn't need to know command line or programming to use, the first user friendly computer, and overall the ONLY good computer around.
And where was Bill Gates? Sitting in a garage plotting to BUY DOS and then copy Macintosh a few years later.